[Xquartz-dev] Remote X11 Connections Blocked on Leopard vs. Tiger

[Merle Reinhart]

Is the local Mac firewall allowing connections?

Merle


On Mar 18, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Grant Erickson wrote:

> Arguably belatedly, I made the transition from Tiger to Leopard on my
> various machines yesterday.
>
> In general, the transition seemed to go smoothly; however, some  
> bumps have
> been encountered with X11 (Xquartz 2.1.5 - (xorg-server 1.3.0-apple22)
> (2.1.5)).
>
> A partial work-around to start-up issues resolved (
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2009-March/002204.html) 
> , I
> am now running into remote connectivity issues.
>
> I am not using SSH X11 forwarding, DISPLAY seems to be correct on  
> both sides
> of the connection, all four combinations of X11.app security  
> settings seem
> to have no impact and neither xhost nor xhost + seem to work:
>
>    aesop% echo $DISPLAY
>    /tmp/launch-3n3Zy2/:0
>
>    % ping -c 2 fenster.local
>    PING fenster.local (192.168.1.14): 56 data bytes
>    64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=0.796 ms
>    64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.290 ms
>
>    aesop% xhost +
>    access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>
>    aesop% slogin fenster.local
>    fenster.local's password:
>    Last login: Wed Mar 18 19:32:47 2009 from 192.168.1.2
>
>    fenster% echo $DISPLAY
>    192.168.1.2:0.0
>
>    fenster% ping aesop.local 56 2
>    PING aesop.local. (192.168.1.2): 56 data bytes
>    64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0 ms
>    64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0 ms
>
>    fenster% xemacs &
>    X server not responding
>    : "192.168.1.2:0.0"
>
>    aesop% grep X11 /etc/ssh* ~/.ssh/*
>    /etc/ssh_config:#   ForwardX11 no
>    /etc/ssh_config.system_default:#   ForwardX11 no
>    /etc/sshd_config:#X11Forwarding no
>    /etc/sshd_config:#X11DisplayOffset 10
>    /etc/sshd_config:#X11UseLocalhost yes
>    /etc/sshd_config:#    X11Forwarding no
>    /etc/sshd_config.system_default:#X11Forwarding no
>    /etc/sshd_config.system_default:#X11DisplayOffset 10
>    /etc/sshd_config.system_default:#X11UseLocalhost yes
>    /etc/sshd_config.system_default:#    X11Forwarding no
>
>    fenster% grep X11 /etc/ssh* ~/.ssh/*
>    /etc/ssh_config:#   ForwardX11 no
>    /etc/sshd_config:#X11Forwarding no
>    /etc/sshd_config:#X11DisplayOffset 10
>    /etc/sshd_config:#X11UseLocalhost yes
>    /etc/sshd_config:#    X11Forwarding no
>
> This all worked OK under Tiger. Any thoughts on what I might be  
> missing or
> miss-setting here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Grant
>
>
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